Linux Mint 8 Helena Review
Today I testdrived Linux Mint 8 Helena, an Ubuntu-based distribution led by Clem Lefebvre and his team. This Mint edition is based off Ubuntu 9.10, they usually release a Mint version some months after an Ubuntu release so they can fix bugs and customize the distro as much as they can, usually turning up quite polished and stable.
I must say Linux Mint has a very good reputation in the Linux world, personally I find it astonishing how big this community based distribution has become, coming close to the point of dethroning his own father Ubuntu. Just take a look at the current Distrowatch ranking:
1 Ubuntu 2280
2 Fedora 1730
3 Mint 1552
4 openSUSE 1389
5 Mandriva 1155
6 Debian 998
7 Sabayon 835
8 Arch 835
9 Puppy 816
10 PCLinuxOS 799
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